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Idol Temples and Crafty Priests

The Origins of Enlightenment Anticlericalism

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  • © 1999

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  1. S. J. Barnett
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Anticlericalism and Historical Revolutions

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    Pages 1-21

  3. The Priestcraft Theory: Text and Context

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    Pages 22-45

  4. From Free Christendom to Papal Despotism

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    Pages 46-64

  5. Church, State and Priest-Kings

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    Pages 65-86

  6. Martyrs, Fanaticism and Empire Defended

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    Pages 87-104

  7. The Book of Priestcraft Open: Fraud and Idolatry

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    Pages 105-128

  8. The Birthpangs of ‘Deist’ Historiography

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    Pages 129-151

  9. Conclusion: the Spiritual Politics of Social Class

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    Pages 152-160

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 161-197
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Barnett traces the Christian critique of the Church and its history in Protestant (English) and Catholic (Italian) thought from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. More than one hundred and fifty years of bitter polemic between the two great confessions and their religious dissidents produced an unprecedented, comparative historical and sociological anticlericalism. In the last decades of the seventeenth century, English dissenting thought was pregnant with a devastating critique of the church, which came to be termed the 'Deist' view of Church history: by 1700 the cornerstone of high 'Enlightenment anticlerical thought' was in ascent.

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S. J. BARNETT is Lecturer in History of Ideas, University of Kingston-upon-Thames

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